GRAND FORKS — While one building project broke ground, another celebrated its completion at UND at the end of Homecoming Week. Both hold significance for the College of Arts and Sciences and drew support from the North Dakota Legislature.

Rep. Mark Sanford, R-Grand Forks, said students should have good facilities, good programs, good professors and good leaders. The latter two have a tougher time operating without quality facilities.

“When you’re looking at this campus, you’re looking at master planning,” he said. “You’re looking at people who have thought ahead of the game, so to speak.”

Sanford was one of a few people to speak at both the STEM Complex groundbreaking and the grand re-opening of Merrifield Hall on Friday, Sept. 19, alongside UND President Andrew Armacost and Dean Brad R

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